jessie from pokemon is such an upsetting character bc her life has been a failure since the very beginning
she is a broken person
unlike for james, who could quit at any time and return to a comfortable life, for jessie, team rocket is everything she has.
she lived in poverty, with a mother who was a criminal, and they were so poor they ate snow
her mother disappeared, looking for mew. there was never a mention of jessie having a father
she wanted to be an actress, and decided to take that route instead of going with a boy she loved, but she ended up losing both as her audition didn’t go through
she wanted to be a nurse, but failed
and now she keeps failing trying to catch that god damned pikachu
as much as i like dawn i almost want jessie to win all the ribbons because she fucking deserves to be happy and she deserves those victories and she deserves a friend like james
*wipes a tear* u go girl
this post is good except for one tiny detail, and that’s that james cannot just “quit at any time and return to a comfortable life”
james’ family has riches and luxury, yes, but his parents are neglectful & uncaring and have engaged him to an abuser. they refuse to let him live in the lap of luxury unless he marries her and spends his whole life miserable.
everything about jessie and james is, from where i’m standing, intended to be opposite. james is a soft-spoken boy from a family that knows wealth but not love. jessie is a headstrong and outspoken girl from a family that knows love but is dirt poor.
the thing they have in common is that neither of them found happiness until they found each other (and meowth, of course) i know this post is about jessie, and trust me–she fucking deserves it–but you can praise her like the queen she is without making it sound like her partner has it easy. neither of them could live the lives that were handed to them with a smile on their face, and they’re both amazingly strong people for continuing to work hard every day, even if it is as antagonists.
I cant believe there is finally an analysis on team rocket im so proud
Anonymous asked: As much as I wanted Jashi, as soon as she kissed Jack i knew Genndy was gonna kill her off. If it hadn't been for that terrible finale, I would have remembered Samurai Jack as a show I loved from my childhood, but now whenever I remember it all I'll be thinking about is how much of a trainwreck the last season ended up being
Like, I’ve never liked Ash. I would have been really happy if she died with her sisters and the whole daughters thing was just an arc for the first three episodes.
I just liked Jashi because it ruled out the post-apocalyptic young girl sidekick, which I hated the prospect of because it’s a cliche that wouldn’t like even if was the first time I experienced it. It also leads into another, just as terrible cliche…
…which is exactly what happened. Persona 3 and On Her Majesty’s Secret Service had similar endings, but both were executed so much better, including the “dying without warning in the epilogue after everything was resolved. Here, every single aspect of that was terrible.
We dodged one trite cliche but got hit with the other one instead, and while one is better than two, it means the sacrifice of having the romance was for naught. Yet, I wouldn’t have been satisfied if Jack and Ashi just lived happily ever after together either. It just doesn’t gel with the kind of person Jack is.
Her being an equal platonic partner would have hardly been better, considering how bland and uninteresting she is.
So in the end, Ashi was doomed to make things worse one way or another. She’s a narrative Morton’s Fork.
The crazy thing, though?
None of that was even the worst part of the last episode.
